[mcrowder]

One note - if you're so concerned with your Flags per Game that you are tracking it, you are probably too worried about your perception as a flag thrower than you should be. Only if someone told you that you seemed to be either over or under-flagging things would I even bother to track this.

That said, if it's a matter of rule interp (2 forward passes), get another official in there and make sure you get it right. If it's a simple he-said, she-said (I counted 12, you counted 11), explain what you saw and let him decide. Perhaps he saw one running off that you didn't see.

Now... the simple waiving off of a flag is not necessarily a negative statement on you. Just last night I waived one off from a 1st year guy. (Hopefully, I did a better job explaining why to him than this guy did for you!) We work NCAA mechanics, so have HL, LJ, and R. LJ flagged a man for being downfield (he was) when he saw the pass leave the QB's hand. He didn't, however, notice that the pass was behind the LOS. So we waived it off, and explained why. After the game, he felt that he'd screwed up on that play. I told him that he didn't necessarily screw up - there were receivers breaking on his side, and while he picked up the downfield lineman while following the receivers on his side, the call of whether the ball crossed the line is actually not always 100% his responsibility and that HL and I had a better look at that than he did.

So the waive-off was not necessarily a knock on him, and the 2 you had waived off on you might not have been on you either.